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Out of the box, Wordpress is bad for this. You can end up with a stack of duplicate and thin content if you are not careful.

The easiest fix is to check some of the wordpress SEO plugins. Several of the popular ones deal with the common duplicate content issues for you without much work at all. The usual approach seems to be to noindex./nofollow the tag pages which is not an awful way to do things.

I use Wordpress too. Like Matt said, just nofollow your tags. About 4 years ago, I used to rank for my tags. Around 2009, the tags dropped out of the search results.

I have my site setup so that categories are followed and each of my category pages is setup to have content on it. I only use a few categories and update content regularly. That way my content updates show on my blog's main page and on the relevant category pages. This keeps the fresh content flowing through, which keeps Google interested. My category pages are all PR 1 or better.

This is probably a good set up for you as well.

I'm not really up on the various plug-ins anymore, because my theme - Headway - incorporates all of the SEO tools that you get from various plug ins. Headway is a paid theme, but it eliminates the hassle of finding plugins and worrying about conflicts with other plugins, buggy plugins, or plugins that are difficult to use.

PS - I don't own Headway or get any kind of benefit from it. I've used various themes over the years, and it's just the theme that works best for me.

In addition to noindexing tag pages in the other suggestions, make sure you are either not indexing subpages (ie: tag/tag-name/page/2 3, 4) etc OR make sure you are grouping them with the rel = prev/next.

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